Domestic cats in the United States kill up to 3.7 billion birds and as many as 20.7 billion mice, voles and other small mammals each year, biologists estimated on Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 29, 2013 3.8 / 5 (19) 228

Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute and Rockefeller University have developed a new technique for precisely altering the genomes of living cells by adding or deleting genes. The researchers say the technology ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 03, 2013 5 / 5 (12) 7 |

The mystery of exactly how consumption of extra virgin olive oil helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) may lie in one component of olive oil that helps shuttle the abnormal AD proteins out of ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 20, 2013 4.6 / 5 (7) 0

(Phys.org)—Researchers at Waseda University in Japan have built a robot rat they call WR-4, and whose purpose isto induce stress in lab rats. In studying the impact of stress inflicted on the lab rats, ...

Electronics - Robotics

Feb 13, 2013 4.4 / 5 (7) 8 |

A Russian rocket carrying a capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals blasted off Friday on a month-long orbital mission that should pave the way for manned flights to Mars.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 19, 2013 3.8 / 5 (8) 0

Nature vs. nurture has long been one of the great debates in science—is behavior hard-wired into the brain, or determined by environment? In at least some cases, Harvard researchers are showing, how animals ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 16, 2013 4.8 / 5 (6) 1 |

The discovery of the Higgs Boson, an invisible particle that explains the mystery of mass, leads a list of the top 10 scientific advances of 2012 released Thursday by the US journal Science.

Physics - General Physics

Dec 21, 2012 3.5 / 5 (8) 14

Using the technique that created Dolly the sheep, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan have identified a way to produce healthy mouse clones that live a normal lifespan ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 6 |

(Phys.org)—A tiny capsule invented at a UCLA lab could go a long way toward improving cancer treatment.

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Feb 06, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 2 |

Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells. Hit number one destroys cells in the main tumor, ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jun 05, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

There is a very good reason mothers often carry their crying babies, pacing the floor, to help them calm down. New research published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 18 shows that infants experience an aut ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 18, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 1 |

(Phys.org) —It is easier to copy something than to develop something new - a principle that was long believed to also apply to the evolution of genes. According to this, evolution copies existing genes and then adapts the ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 9 |

The method developed by the group in Lund is based on human cells grown in a laboratory. The cells are exposed to a chemical and then parts of their genetic content are filtered out and transferred to a microchip.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jun 14, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

Mammalian females ovulate periodically over their reproductive lifetimes, placing significant demands on their ovaries for egg production. Whether mammals generate new eggs in adulthood using stem cells has been a source ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 29, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

Like humans, mice can become infected with Borrelia. However, not all mice that come into contact with these bacteria contract the dreaded Lyme disease: Animals with a particular gene variant are immune to ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 04, 2013 4 / 5 (3) 0